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Ultimate Collection (40 tracks deep!) on Capitol vs. Innovative Life: The Anthology, 1984-1989 (mad rarities!) on Stones Throw.

Lexie Mountain Boys, Tuvan throat singers of Baltimore, have recently released Sacred Vacation, a yelpy mélange of acapella and foot stomp singalongs. "You got a boyfriend? You got a husband?" when catcalled from a crew of tough women on a CD is a peculiar thing. Really, Lexie Mountain Boys as a concept is a large pile of mystery. To clarify (a little) we asked the women of the Boys some questions and they all answered separately. Illuminations are after the jump. more...

A press release recently came round these parts for the band Paper Route, describing them as "the intersection of Postal Service, Spiritualized and Death Cab [For Cutie]." If our rock mathematics calculations are correct, doesn't that just make them Ben Gibbard over-doing it on his anti-anxiety meds?

This video is like the culmination of our love of No Age—we've been with them forever and now they are on MTV hanging out with Pete Wentz and Rihanna. Weird times, also: great times. That being said, while this whole video is totally awesome, the first couple rainbowed out seconds made our morning, and the slowed down bliss of the rest of it made our day.

Genius knitwear is so often a downright slept-on commodity in fashion. It's taken a few really talented new designers, the likes of Brit Louise Goldin and Swede Sandra Buckland, to really push the awe-inspiring and futuristic knit possibilities further and edge the craft a little closer to the limelight. For fall, it's honestly the really loopy and crazily cobwebbed knitwear that has us all atwitter—the kind of dresses and sweaters you can poke both your fingers in and tug a few threads on for fun. We profiled designer Ioannis Dimitrousis and his gorgeous silk crochet dresses (all handmade by Mama Dimitrousis) in our spring fashion issue and the new dresses for fall are even more staggeringly awesome. Torn and/or cobwebbed knits are traditionally heavy and gothic in their aesthetic but the nice thing about Dimitrousis is that is keeps it super fun and fizzy, dabbling just a teeny bit with the darkside for dramatic effect. One dress in particular starts with a black knit tunic and blossoms out in to glorious yarn techni-colored rah-rah skirt, the kind of outfit you might wear floating on a storm cloud. After seeing Rodarte's fall collection, their cobwebby stockings are the probably the only kind of fucked-up tights we ever want to wear again. Although truth be told they look so dangerously loopy it's almost as if they were knitted on to the body, one model at a time. Still, there are some of us who prefer our torn sweaters as dark and Robert Smithian as possible. For that dear friends, Topshop (launch date pending) is there with a black sweater from a collection they've named "sedition." If that means rebel knitwear for the masses than we guess we'll all about it. more...

You know when you see a piece of art and all of a sudden it’s like you've jackknifed into the artist’s brain and feel like you’re being allowed to see things that you totally shouldn’t be and it’s kind of embarrassing but also really exciting? That’s how we felt today when Tiny Vices’ Tim Barber let us take an early look at his exhibition opening tomorrow at Partners & Spade in the East Village. The show features work by twelve TV artists (some are even FADER contributors!) as well as Barber himself, and showcases all fourteen TV Books titles as well as a limited edition poster series. The images, which range from incredibly childlike to deeply disturbing and sometimes even both at once, made us wish, among other things, that we’d spent our time in middle-school detention making a book called “Death Pits," instead of whatever we were actually doing. We all make mistakes. The exhibition runs at 40 Great Jones Street (between Lafayette and Bowery) this Saturday and Sunday between noon and 8pm. The full flyer is after the jump along with some more behind the scenes setup photos. more...

After getting full-on booted from Bonnaroo for filming during Kanye's sunrise set, Videothing (profiled in FADER #53) took to the road to document the F Yeah Tour. Traveling the country in a bus that can run on vegetable oil with the likes of Matt & Kim, The Death Set and Monotonix. Videothing has been posting day-by-day video diaries, the most recent of which finds the motley crew in Pensecola, Florida. That happened on Tuesday, aka day eight. There will twenty-seven days to the tour. We only hope he makes it out alive.

Whoa dudes tripppppyyyyy! Jeremy Jay is squirming around like a tall tree wind, throw a couple in-camera video effects and you've got yourself a regular old 1994 type of time. Which, if you didn't know, is great. Anyway, this video is from Jeremy Jay's performance in LA at The Echo for the FADER/Fred Perry party. It may have been sweltering hot in there, but we'd do it all again in a heartbeat.

Tonight No Age continue their trend of playing weird places in LA by performing the Getty museum's "Fridays off the 405" series. (You totally have to take a tram from the parking lot to get there, it's killer.) But in even stranger news, the video for their song "Eraser" premieres tonight at 8pm on the Pete Wentz-hosted FNMTV, the new music video show on Music Television. Also premiering a video tonight: TI. Rip it weirdos!

Tonight on the Let Out, our weekly East Village Radio show (made possible by Dewars) we will be celebrating the fact that we've officially decided that were ae fully embroiled in summer mode from now until like December. That means lots of relaxing. Listen live at eastvillageradio.com from 6-8 EST, and if you miss it, you can always grab the podcast afterwards.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to jump into a rainbow? It would be this video. Oddly enough, this video also feels like getting punched in the face. We're not sure how those two things could possibly intersect, but Shy Child make it happen. If this went on for an extra five minutes it would totally be categorized as prog rock, and that is weird to think about.

NY Magazine has posted, in two parts, Les Blank's short film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe. All of the pertinent information about why and how Herzog eats his shoe (he really eats it!) so go there and read it and then watch the short film they have so lovingly posted But here, on theFADER.com (after the jump) we will give you three haikus about the film, choose your favorite: more...

The recent "best of" offerings from artists who were buzz bands in the ’90s have some neat little treasures to them. The Best of Radiohead DVD came to be without any involvement from the group, so it included Michel Gondry's creepy "Knives Out" clip that Thom Yorke apparently totally hates and wouldn't allow to be used in Gondry's Directors Label collection. But even better is D'Angelo's The Best So Far... CD and DVD set. After the jump read the best things about The Best So Far... in descending order. more...

Jimmy Tamborello's (aka DNTEL, also half of The Postal Service) Vinyl Archeology in F46 featured an Eluvium album as one of the things he would like to hear WHILE DYING. Happy Times! Eluvium makes foggy ambient music, so it's fitting that we now have a video of him playing an Explosions in the Sky song on piano in what is either a recording studio or a rec center. We featured Explosions in the Sky in issue 44, and some staff members who had a vaguely unhealthy obsession with Friday Night Lights ride for them forever, so maybe—if we watch this for long enough—we can all cry and then hug because we will have shared an experience. THE BONDING POWERS OF MUSIC ARE SERIOUS AND NOT TO BE JOKED ABOUT.

MySpace has taught me a lot of things and enriched my life in many ways. I mean, before MySpace I never realised that Lost in Translation was the best movie ever made or that George Lucas was the best director ever to step foot in this part of the galaxy. Without MySpace I wouldn't have been given the pleasure of learning that 65 per cent of the people in the world would like to meet Notorious B.I.G., John Lennon, Martin Luther King and Bob Dylan. Also thanks to MySpace (and the small detail of some audio ripping software) I have now got hold of Ghetto's "Sing For Me" (which I wrote about a few weeks back) and am putting it up here for your listening pleasure. Your ears can thank me later.


Ghetto, "Sing for Me" more...

Do you think A-Trak runs a lot? Because we do, and we think about beats a lot when we're on BOTH the track AND the treadmill (and at our desk and in the coffee line at Garden of Eden) and it's really energizing to have this motivational crescendoing rhythm scoring our laborious thigh pumps and, obvs, beat-coordinated sweating. "They hear the bass and they say whoa" is the chorus. Oh duh. Do you think A-Trak does the thighmaster?


Download: A-Trak, "Say Whoa"

Death is overrated. Even despite your collection of Italian horror films depicting bloody ghost decapitations and creepy little girls trying to suck your intestines into the teevee. Munk, this German dude who is apparently obsessed with Man Ray judging from his MySpace, understands that the junkies who live fast and die young are stinky, stupid and gross, and that living fast and dying OLD is obviously the way to go, cause then you actually have more time to play wild games. So he made a song about it and got Roman actor/auteur Asia Argento to sing on it; she sounds surprisingly riot churrrrlish (or maybe we're projecting because her new album is a picture of her HAIRY UNSHAVEN ARMPIT). The original is this awesome understated disco pop jernt, but obviously Ed Banger couldn't keep their sticky little fingaz (shout to Onyx) off it and made this electro-burpy big-room version, hopefully to remind the gel-hoarders at their raves that love rules and also, Christopher Walken is rad. Buy the whole shebang here.


Download: Munk, "Live Fast Die Old (Ed Banger All Stars Remix)"

New Killer Mike is always an occasion, whether it's a quick guest verse, or a whole entire unreleased album. "10 G's" is from I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II, and it takes the Killer Mike as an aggressive NY-style rapper living in Atlanta idea one step further by putting him over a beat with a slowed Biggie sample and a gothic church organ. See, it's like New York and Atlanta are colliding instrumentally and vocally. Sidenote: It's not like we don't want Killer Mike to be happy, but it seems like the more annoyed and mad he gets, the better his music gets. Isn't there some kind of middle ground?


Killer Mike, "10 G's" (via 2dopeboyz)

Last month we got weird with Andrew WK. He sang improvisational songs about trying to gain weight and then everyone got up and danced in a circle. We don't exactly need to tell you that it was totally out of control. This month's installment of Get Weird (curated by ex-FADER EIC/Permanent FADER fam Alex Wagner) features some Get Weird/FADER synergy: Current issue Gen-Fer 77Klash is bringing dancehall to the museum along with DJ Rupture, who traveled to Buenos Aires to write the cumbia feature also in our summer music issue. Is there any doubt that this WON'T be fun? If you hurry, you can still buy tickets here.